It had been one year since the incident in Sokovia. Between training with the team and looking for Bucky, which was just a bunch of dead ends by the way, Cassidy was exhausted. She had so many restless nights, and she knew she had been keeping Steve up too, even though he would never admit it.

It was getting harder, being without Bucky. It was taking its toll on both of them, knowing he was out there somewhere. Cassidy got more depressed every time a lead on Bucky turned cold. She could see Steve was getting defeated too. She could see it in his face, he rarely smiled anymore, and it broke her heart.

Cassidy was curled up in the bed, with the biggest blanket they had, watching some old black and white movie, rubbing the necklace Steve had given her. She heard the door open and Steve's footsteps softly coming toward her. He stopped at the end of the couch and sat down, pulling her feet into his lap, rubbing them for her.

"Bucky and I saw this in the theater when it came out. It was one of our first dates." Steve said softly. Cassidy smiled and clutched her necklace tighter. "Bucky was the perfect gentleman, we sat in the back, so nobody could see us, because we were too scared of someone finding out about us being together. He held my hand the entire time, always making sure a part of him was touching me. I knew in that moment that I loved him."

Cassidy turned her head and looked at him and noticed he was crying. She turned her body so she was leaning into him and squeezed him as hard as she could. "I'm so tired Steve." She said softly. Steve let out a heavy sigh and kissed her on the top of her head.

"I know sweetheart, I am too." Cassidy looked down and noticed that he was in his uniform. She pulled back and looked up at him.

"Where do we have to go?" She asked.

"Lagos. We found a lead on Rumlow." Cassidy stood and walked to the closet, suddenly having enough energy to beat the ever-loving shit out of that man.

Cassidy sat at a table with Wanda, sipping casually on her tea. Nat was a few tables over, Sam on the rooftop of the opposite building and Steve was watching from the inside of a building.

"Okay, what do you see?" Steve's voice rang out over the comms. Wanda looked behind her, then back down to the table.

"Standard beat cops, small station. Quiet street. It's s good target." She told him.

"There's an ATM on the south corner, which means?' Steve asked.

"Cameras."

"Both streets are one way."

"Which mean compromised escape routes." Cassidy added, huffing out a breath. They had hoped that this would be easy.

"Means he doesn't care about being seen and he isn't afraid to make a mess on the way out."

No. Rumlow didn't care about how big of scene he made, nor did he care if he killed anyone.

"You see that Range Rover halfway up the block?" Steve asked. Cassidy casually looked behind her, pretending to take a selfie with Wanda.

"Yeah the red one? It's cute." Wanda said, smiling into the camera.

"It's also bulletproof." Nat told them. "Which means private security, which means more guns, which means more headaches for somebody. Probably us."

Wanda smirked. "You guys know I can move things with my mind right?" Cassidy chuckled into her cup and glanced over at Nat who was smiling.

"Looking over your shoulder needs to become second nature." Nat told Wanda.

"Anybody ever tell you you're a little paranoid." Sam asked.

"All the time." Cassidy pointed out. Nat rolled her eyes at her.

"No why? Did you hear something?"

"Eyes on target guys. This is the best lead we've had on Rumlow in six months and I don't wanna lose him." Steve scolded. Cassidy winked at Wanda who laughed softly. She liked when Steve talked to them in his Captain voice.

"If he sees us coming that wont be a problem. He kinda hates us, especially you Cap. And Cassidy."

Cassidy laughed. "I mean, I am the reason he got thrown across the room by a guy with a metal arm." She told him, glad that Bucky had gotten in a punch for her.

"Sam." Steve said in a tone that made Cassidy just a little uneasy. "See that garbage truck? Tag it." Cassidy watched as the little bird flew out over the sky and down into the crowd of people to attach itself to the truck.

"The trucks loaded for max weight and the driver is armed." Sam told them. Cassidy shared a look with Nat to confirm her suspicions. Nat nodded and Cassidy gulped.

"What?" Wanda asked,

"It's a battering ram." Cassidy said.

"Go now." Steve told them. Wanda shook her head, not understanding what was going on.

"He's not hitting the police."

They all got up and started running in the direction of the truck. Cassidy could see the building as she rounded the corner and skidded to a stop when the truck smacked into the barriers for the Infectious Disease center and flipped up in the air, destroying the entrance. She watched as two yellow trucks pulled into the lot and she grabbed Wanda's hand and ran over to the side of the building to get out of sight.

She heard Steve touch down with the smack of his shield against someone's body.

"Body armor, AR15s. I make seven hostiles." He told them. Sam flew over them and landed on a bridge, taking out two men.

"I make five." Wanda grabbed onto Cassidy and floated them up in the air and landed down in the lot, putting a shield over them as she threw another up at Sam. "Four." They met Steve in the middle, unsure of where Nat had gone off to.

"Rumlow's on the third floor." Sam told them after scanning the building. Steve nodded, walking over to Wanda.

"Just like we practiced."

"What about the gas?" she asked.

"Get it out."

She raised Steve up and shot him through the window, then took all the gas from the building and shot it up in the air while Cassidy and Sam took down what was left of Rumlow's men in the lot.

"Rumlow has a biological weapon." Steve told them. Cassidy heard the roar of a motorcycle as she saw Nat coming around the corner.

"I'm on it." She said. Cassidy ran over to where she was and together they fought several of Rumlow's men while trying to get to Rumlow himself. Before she could stop it, Nat was pulled up on top of the truck and threw a few punches at Rumlow before he threw into the truck and tossed a grenade in.

Rumlow jumped down and put his hand around Cassidy's throat. "You're coming with me." He growled into her ear, before picking her up and tossing her into a truck. One of his men had a gun trained her as Rumlow took the tube and slid it into a container.

"Take this to the airstrip, we won't outrun them. Lose the truck." He told someone, handing him the container. The truck sped down the road crashing into several food stands before coming to a stop.

The guys jumped out and Rumlow dragged her out by her hair.

"Where are you meeting us?" Someone asked him.

Rumlow looked to him and then down at Cassidy. "I'm not." He yanked on her hair as he began to drag her down the street, toward where Steve was she assumed.

Rumlow pulled a grenade out of his pocket when they were close to Steve and before she could warn him, Rumlow threw it, and it attached itself to Steve's shield. He threw it up in the air and it exploded. Rumlow threw Cassidy to the ground and attacked Steve. "There you are, you son of a bitch."

Cassidy drew her gun and shot at Rumlow, groaning when the bullets just bounced off his armor. Cassidy went for him again but he turned, putting an arm around her chest and a gun to her head.

Steve froze and held his hands up. 'Don't hurt her Rumlow." He pleaded. Rumlow pressed the barrel of the gun harder into Cassidy's temple, causing her to whimper.

"I oughta kill her, after what you did to me." Rumlow spat, pulling his gear off, revealing that his face was horribly scarred. "I think I look okay, all things considered."

Steve tried to stay calm, but Cassidy knew that he was seconds away from freaking out. "Just tell me who your buyer is Rumlow, and all this can be over."

Rumlow laughed. "You know, he knew you. Your pal, your buddy, your Bucky." Cassidy struggled against him but he held her tighter, clicking the gun into position. "He remembered you. I was there. He got all weepy about it, then we put his brain in a blender after he helped your little bitch escape. Now he's gone and she will be too."

Cassidy shot her foot back into Rumlow's shin, smiling when she heard bones cracking. She launched herself into Steve's arms just as he pressed a button on his side, engulfing him in fire. Wanda contained it, throwing it up into the air before Steve could stop her. The explosion slammed into the side of a building, causing a chunk of it to be destroyed.

Wanda covered her mouth and Cassidy listened to Steve call for EMT's.

This was really bad.